Las Vegas Raiders add defensive depth, sign tackle Gerald McCoy
HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders signed veteran free of charge-agent defensive tackle Gerald McCoy to include to an now deep-but-rebuilt line on Wednesday, the workforce introduced.
McCoy, 33, missed last year right after suffering a ruptured proper quadriceps tendon in schooling camp with the Dallas Cowboys.
The 6-foot-four, three hundred-pound McCoy was the No. 3 overall decide by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2010 NFL draft and is a six-time Professional Bowl assortment from 2012 through 2017. He was initially-workforce All-Professional in 2013, when he had nine.five sacks, 21 QB hits and 4 passes defensed. He also performed for the Carolina Panthers in 2019 and has begun all 139 games he has performed in for the duration of his vocation, totaling 352 tackles, 59.five sacks, six forced fumbles and 4 fumble recoveries.
McCoy performed forty games above 3 university seasons for the Oklahoma Sooners and had 14.five sacks between his 83 tackles.
In the initially padded apply of schooling camp last August, McCoy suffered the quad harm and the Cowboys before long thereafter produced him, conserving Dallas $3.25 million.
An harm waiver in the 3-yr, $18 million deal McCoy had signed with Dallas in March 2020 negated the deal going forward because of to serious tendinitis in his proper knee/quadriceps.
McCoy, while, was permitted to retain the $3 million signing bonus in the transaction.
In Las Vegas, McCoy joins a defensive tackle place that consists of Quinton Jefferson and Johnathan Hankins, both of whom have been acquiring initially-workforce reps in new defensive coordinator Gus Bradley’s base four-3 plan Solomon Thomas, the No. 3 overall decide of the 2017 draft and Matt Dickerson, Darius Philon and Niles Scott. Clelin Ferrell, the No. four overall decide of the 2019 draft, has been viewing time as a move-rushing 3-system on third down.
